"Liam!" Zayn shouts.  He drops down onto his knees next to his friend and puts his hand on his back. 

Liam, Louis and Zayn were just interviewed on how it was like to lose their other band members and what's next for One Direction.  You and the boys are in the dressing room now and while you were talking about all of the good times they had on tour, Liam unexpectedly fell off the couch and face-first onto the floor.

"Are you alright?" Zayn asks.

Liam doesn't answer.

"Liam, can you hear me?" Louis asks, also getting down on the floor.  "Liam!"

They carefully turn him over on his back.  His eyes are closed and his face is completely expressionless.

"What's wrong with him?" Louis asks. 

"I don't know!" Zayn replies.  "Liam!  Liam, wake up!"

Suddenly Louis rushes to the door and swings it open.  "Hey!" he yells down the hall.  "Can we get some help in here?  Something's wrong with Liam!"

Almost instantly, four men dressed in black come running.  "What happened?" one of them asks when they see Liam on the floor.

"We don't know!" Zayn replies.  "He just sort of...fell over!"

"Can we get some paramedics in here?" another one of the men yells out the door. 

Thank goodness there were paramedics on-site.  They rush into the room and surround Liam, checking his pulse and feeling his head.  "What happened?" one asks.

"We were just talking," Louis says.  "Then he fell off the couch for no reason!"

"There was definitely a reason," a paramedic says.  "Did anything happen before you started talking?"

"No," Zayn says.  "We just came in here after the show and sat down!"

"Did he...ingest anything that could have been harmful?"

"Just water, I think," Louis says.

Suddenly Liam's arm shakes a bit, startling you and the boys.

"Just water...?" a paramedic asks.

"Y...yes..." Zayn says.

"Why did his arm move like that?" Louis demands.

"It was a convulsion," a paramedic explains.  "It's a result of ingestin neurological poison."

"Poison?" Zayn says. 

Strangely, without having to be asked, a small group of people come in carrying a cot. 

"Whoa now!" Louis says.  "What is that for?"

"We need to get him to the hospital straight away," a paramedic says.  "He may have slipped into a coma."

Liam's body is lifted onto the cot and the people start to strap him on.  Zayn watches in horror while Louis is only confused.

"A coma?!" Louis shouts.  "You're saying just a bit of poison put him into a coma?"

"I'm not saying it's true," the paramedic says.  "But you'd be surprised what just a little poison is capable of."

Louis is left at a loss for words as Liam is carried away.  Zayn is still on the floor, and is in the verge of tears. 

"What in the world...?" Louis says.  "What was in that drink, anyway?"  He rushes to the table and snatches the glass.

"P...poison I guess," Zayn says.

"Sounds like a lot of crap to me.  I mean...who would purposely put poison in a glass for crying out loud?  They would have to have some sort of motivation to do it, but...it just doesn't make any sense."

"Marcy..." you whisper.

"What was that, Love?" Louis asks.

"Marcy!" you yell.  "Marcy must have left the poison?"

"That crazy girl who almost killed Harry?" Zayn asks.

"Yes!" you answer.  "She wants revenge!"

"Love..." Louis says.

"No, I'm serious!  She's still out there to get me!  Maybe she's mad about not succeeding in killing me so she left the poison!  It was probably meant for me, but Liam drank it instead!"

"Wait a minute," Zayn says.  "If she left the poison for you, wouldn't she had designed it to kill you?"

"Oh no..." you whisper.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Louis says.  "Are you seriously going to believe that she somehow knew we were going to be here, snuck in, and left a poisoned drink on the table?  Love, she's in jail!  She went to jail when she shot Harry and probably an insane asylum!"

"Oh yeah..." you say.  "I forgot she was in jail."

"That's right," Louis says.  "There's absolutely no way Marcy could have done this.  Maybe something was in it that Liam is allergic to, okay?  Liam is going to be alright."

That night, Louis checked out of the suite and invited you and Zayn to his house.  The three of you sit around his kitchen table and eat some once-frozen pizza Louis happens to have.  The whole house is silent except for everyone's soft chewing. 

"After a long day at the studio," Louis says. "I would bring Niall over here and we would eat this pizza.  We'd talk about all the crazy things that happened that day.  He would always laugh as he ate.  Man, he liked this pizza so much I would have to make another when I had only eaten two slices!"

Zayn chuckles a bit.  Then his face suddenly turns expressionless.  "Yeah..." he says, glaring at the table.  "I miss him."

"Me too," Louis says.  "But Niall would want us to talk about him, I think."

Zayn smiles.  "Yeah, I remember that one time on stage Harry nearly fit an entire banana in his mouth, and--"

"Let's not talk about that," Louis interrupts.

"What?" Zayn says.  "But wouldn't Harry want us to talk about him, too?"

"Shut up!" Louis screams.  "We're not going to talk about Harry, okay?"

The whole house falls silent again.  Zayn continues to eat and dares not make eye contact with Louis.  You sort of do the same, a little worried.  All of a sudden, the phone rings in the other room.

"I'll get it," Louis grumbles, pushing his chair away from the table.  He dissapears from view and answers the phone.  "Hello, Louis Tomlinson here," he says.

"Hello," a voice on the other end says.  "I'm calling about your friend, Liam."

"Oh!  Is he alright?" Louis asks.

"Sir, Liam passed away about a half hour ago."

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